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Table 3 Comorbid conditions

From: Chiropractic care and the risk of vertebrobasilar stroke: results of a case–control study in U.S. commercial and Medicare Advantage populations

Conditions n (%)

Commercial

Medicare

Cases (n = 1159)

Controls (n = 4633)

p-value

Cases (n = 670)

Controls (n = 2680)

p-value

Hypertensive disease

767 (66.2)

2078 (44.9)

<0.0001

554 (82.7)

1721 (64.2)

<0.0001

Ischemic heart disease

300 (25.9)

638 (13.8)

<0.0001

258 (38.5 )

563 (21.0)

<0.0001

Diseases of pulmonary circulation

29 (2.5)

55 (1.2)

0.0008

18 (2.7)

70 (2.6)

0.9140

Other forms of heart disease

357 (30.8)

800 (17.3)

<0.0001

306 (45.7)

713 (26.6)

<0.0001

Pure Hypercholesterolemia

9 (0.8)

24 (0.5)

0.2957

6 (0.9)

26 (1.0)

0.8590

Diseases of other endocrine glands

319 (27.5)

754 (16.3)

<0.0001

285 (42.5)

740 (27.6)

<0.0001

At least one of the conditions

829 (71.5)

2317 (50.0)

<0.0001

593 (88.5)

1885 (70.3)

<0.0001